Mobile
phone users in Angola amounted to some 14 million, almost doubling the
number of five years ago amid the development of the telecommunications
and information technologies, one of the fastest growing sectors of the
African country since decades of armed conflicts came to an end in the
year 2002.
Mobile
phone Angola also has 3 million and 400,000 internet and digital
library users respectively as against the 23 million population,
according to statistics released by Minister of Telecommunication and
Information Technologies Jose Carvalho da Rocha on Wednesday at a forum
on the IT industry in Angola.
The
minister said the government’s blueprint on the development of the IT
industry has covered the whole national territory with a stress on
regions where the access was difficult, and the goals of the sector were
to make the IT services reachable by the country’s population by the
year 2017.
Carvalho
da Rocha stressed the goal could only be achieved with the
establishment of more infrastructure, transfer of knowledge and
technological innovation with stress to the expansion of national
optical fibre retransmission points and implementation of submarine
cables of the digital library and relevant networks across the country.
Currently Unitel and Movicel are the two major providers of mobile phone and internet services in Angola.
Source: Balancingact-Africa
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